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I would love to have a little #robot helping me around the house with small tasks. But they all seem pretty crappy. This one apparently runs on a #raspberrypi 5 and 4GB of memory. Only ~$1,688. https://xcancel.com/AntonioSitongLi/status/2089819707100770754?s=20
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@bryan Noooo! Don't even think about this. They're not ready.
(a) Not a "little" robot - it will take up a whole human's worth of space, even while charging.
(b) Not helpful. Look at the lighting changes while it's folding - that one piece took *hours*. The cooking example? Note how it doesn't show important things like "does the food stay in the pan" and "is it actually scraping the bottom of the pan and preventing burning, or is it just waving the spatula around in the vicinity of the pan"! In the "pouring" example, you can't tell how much is going in - will it randomly overfill or put so little in you have to top it up yourself?
(c) The wobble in the tidying up example shows it has poor maneuvering and manipulation precision - it can grab can and bottle sized things because its grippers have a lot of flexibility to compensate, but I'm pretty sure you'll have to carefully place the spatula in its hand. Note how the "load the dishwasher" example has it just waving a pan around in the proximity of the dishwasher, not actually placing it between the rack tines. I suspect it isn't actually capable of loading a dishwasher because of that imprecision. I *absolutely would not* trust it with glassware.
Horrifying!!!
@Robotistry the end of the video does show it fold itself up and charge… so point a is… not strong.
But yeah. The rest is correct… 😂
They have remote training? 🤔